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Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:38 pm
by satnav
Apparently Douglas Murray has written a piece in the Spectator in which he argues with regard to Epstein that Trump is just trying to protect the innocent!

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:46 pm
by Youngian
Boiler wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:58 am I see he's taken the new South Park well...
“This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention,” White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in the statement. “President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country’s history – and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump’s hot streak.”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... nald-trump
Not a bad description of this infantile show even 20 years ago, so why take time out to respond? It's like being lampooned by the Goodies.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:13 pm
by The Weeping Angel
South Park managed to make contrarianism mainstream, so I suppose this goes some way to make up for it.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 10:28 pm
by satnav
It looks likes Trump's latest stunt was to send his lawyers to interview Maxwell in prison with a list of one hundred names they wanted to dig the dirt on. Presumably all this new information will now trigger a further investigation which will drag on for a couple of years. While the new investigation is on going Trump will be able to dodge any questions on the topic. I seem to think Johnson tried a similar ploy during Partygate releasing tons of new evidence days before the Sue Gray was due to complete her investigation.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 11:13 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Remember, folks, Trump and the Republicans previously thought this was a huge scandal.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-sho ... t-n1135786
In June 2016, Bill Clinton had a chat on a tarmac with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and according to everyone involved, it was a fairly brief and inconsequential social interaction. Such conversations are not uncommon when prominent political figures are in the same place at the same time.
It was in front of other people who said they spoke very quickly about golf and grandchildren.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 3:18 pm
by Boiler
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo
But he soon became infuriated at plans to construct an offshore wind farm nearby, arguing that the "windmills" - as he prefers to call the structures - would ruin the view.
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For clarity, there are no windmills in the North Sea.

Windmills mill grain into flour. What he's seeing are wind turbines.

But making them sound like centuries old technology is a way to deride their worth.
From his Aberdeenshire course, he posted on Truth Social (with his trademark capital letters) that the UK should "incentivize the drillers, FAST", and that there was a "VAST FORTUNE TO BE MADE" for the UK from the "treasure chest" of oil.
I live in hope that one day, lightning will strike his raised golf club.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 8:17 pm
by The Weeping Angel


A reminder, these aid cuts have cost thousands of lives.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 7:01 pm
by Abernathy
Oh dear. Donnie’s hand is hovering over the nuclear launch button.

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-orders ... s-13405255

Trump orders two nuclear submarines to be moved after 'highly provocative' comments from ex-Russian president

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 7:57 pm
by Oboogie
I'm reassured that he's TACO.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:26 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
At some point Wall Street might realize that tax cuts aren't all that.


Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:32 pm
by Youngian
It comes after Dmitry Medvedev, who is now deputy chair of Russia's Security Council, told the US president to remember Moscow had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort.

It's not Trump at fault here, Medvedev has evolved into a madcap loose cannon even by Putin's standards. Donnie's love affair with Vlad is cooling so Dmitry's timing to shoot his mouth off at the orange baboon couldn't be worse.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:57 pm
by Abernathy
Trump did not need to respond to Medvedev’s rantings. He might just have moved the hands of the doomsday clock a tadge closer to midnight.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:18 pm
by Oboogie
Youngian wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:32 pm
It comes after Dmitry Medvedev, who is now deputy chair of Russia's Security Council, told the US president to remember Moscow had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort.

It's not Trump at fault here, Medvedev has evolved into a madcap loose cannon even by Putin's standards. Donnie's love affair with Vlad is cooling so Dmitry's timing to shoot his mouth off at the orange baboon couldn't be worse.
Trump could have ignored it or he could have told Dmitry Medvedev to remember Washington has 21st Century era nuclear strike capabilities of last resort. No need to escalate the verbal intimidation to the physical.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:05 pm
by Youngian
It would be the interests of all concerned if Medvedev meets with a clumsy accident in a tenth floor flat.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 1:02 pm
by Youngian
Can't see Trump pulling himself out of this mess to prevent Musk backed conspiracy candidates in the Mid terms scalping majorities from Republican candidates.


Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 1:14 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Musk running spoiler candidates in the Mid Terms/ state elections? Would Musk put it that far? He won't want the Democrats controlling the House.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:06 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
satnav wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:38 pm Apparently Douglas Murray has written a piece in the Spectator in which he argues with regard to Epstein that Trump is just trying to protect the innocent!
Wingnut Welfare is all in with Trump. Like Macbeth, they're so far in it's too hard work to go back.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:51 pm
by Spoonman
Youngian wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:05 pm It would be the interests of all concerned if Medvedev meets with a clumsy accident in a tenth floor flat.
In my cynical opinion, the Medvedev comments are simply a co-ordinated show to make the Donald look tough without actually having to do anything.

Also, where are the Epstein Files? :twisted:

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:53 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Wherever they are, Trump's name has been redacted from them.

Re: Trump 2.0 Lunacy

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:55 pm
by Spoonman
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:06 pm
satnav wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:38 pm Apparently Douglas Murray has written a piece in the Spectator in which he argues with regard to Epstein that Trump is just trying to protect the innocent!
Wingnut Welfare is all in with Trump. Like Macbeth, they're so far in it's too hard work to go back.
Previously, there was a time when I would hear someone say "There's no such thing as bad publicity" I'd reply back "Getting caught with CSAM or being a paedo isn't bad publicity?" - now we have a situation where people are without sarcasm excusing such actions. It's either scary, the sign of a cult, or both.